Amrit Singh

Amrit Singh (born 1969) is a human rights lawyer for the National Security and Counterterrorism program at the Open Society Justice Initiative. She was formerly a staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.

As Senior Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, since 2009, Ms. Singh directs a program that conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on national security-related human rights abuses across the globe. She is Counsel, among other cases, in al Nashiri v. Poland and al Nashiri v. Romania, lawsuits brought on behalf of Guantanamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri before the European Court of Human Rights that challenge the role of Poland and Romania in the CIA’s secret detention program.

Singh is the author of Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition. The 216-page report, released by OSJI in February 2013, is the most comprehensive account to date of the human rights abuses associated with the CIA’s post 9/11 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations as well as of the large number of foreign governments implicated in these operations. The report received global media attention and was the subject of editorials in leading newspapers.

Amrit

As per Hindu mythology Amrit "Anyone who drink this holy water will never die"

Amrit or Amrith (Arabic:عمريت‎), also known as Marathos or Marathus (Ancient Greek: Μάραθος), was an ancient Phoenician city located near Tartus in Syria. Founded in the third millennium BC and abandoned during the second century BC, the city's Phoenician ruins have been preserved in their entirety without extensive remodeling by later generations.

Overview

The city lies on the Mediterranean coast around 6 kilometres (3.7mi) south of modern-day Tartus. Two rivers cross the city: Nahr Amrit, near the main temple, and Nahr al-Kuble near the secondary temple, a fact that might be linked to the importance of water in the religious traditions in Amrit. The city was probably founded by the Arvadites, and served as their continental base. It grew to be one of the wealthiest towns in the dominion of Arwad. The city surrendered, along with Arwad, to Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During Seleucid times the town, known as Marathus, was probably larger and more prosperous than Arwad. In 219 BC Amrit gained independence from Arwad, and was later sacked by forces from the latter city in 148 BC.

Amrit (film)

Amrit is a 1986 Indian Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna in the title role playing the character of Amritlal Sharma. The film was directed by Mohan Kumar immediately after directing Avtaar with Khanna in the title role and lyrics written by Anand Bakshi. This movie gave Rajesh Khanna his fourth BJFA Best Actor award in 1987. The film was critically acclaimed and received five stars in Bollywood Guide Collections.

Synopsis

Amrit (Rajesh Khanna) stays with his only son and meanwhile Kamla (Smita Patil) a widow stays with her only son at Kamal Niwas. But Kamla is treated as servant in her own house and the only person who loves her in the house is her granddaughter Sunita. Amrit has the habit of taking his grandson to the nearby garden when his grandson is free from studies. Amrit learns about Kamla’s problems due to him meeting her coincidentally quite regularly in the garden. Amrit and Kamla meet up to develop a good relationship. One fine day Kamla gets late to pick up her granddaughter Sunita from the school, as the auto rickshaw she was travelling to reach school, meets with an accident. Amrit, meanwhile goes to pick up his grandson Rahul, comes to know of this and brings Sunita to her house. Amrit sees Kamla being humiliated by her daughter-in-law when he goes to their house to nurse Kamla’s injury. Amrit decides to donate some money to Brahmins on the occasion of his son’s birthday but he does not have money and so asks his son to give him few bucks. amrit and kamla watch tv with sunita and rahul upon this amrit sons get angry and humiliate them, his son throws him out of the house permanently. In the torrential rains, the hurt Amrit meets with the accident. Kamla, then with help of like minded people, admits Amrit in a hospital. The rest of the story is about how Amrit and Kamla decide to separate from their respective selfish children and spend the rest part of life together and how society perceives their togetherness.

Plot: What happens when you put pianist Vijay Iyer, music critic Amrit Singh, and members of Das Racist, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer and Neon Indian into an Indian disco van to track down NYC's best dosa? Plenty of Bobby Jindal jokes, heartfelt extolling of the virtues of coconut-hair oil, and even more in this journey deep into the heart of that virtuous South Asian crepe. The first in a proposed series of culinary escapades through the foodie fantasia that stretches from Jackson Heights to Curry Hill, Dosa Hunt is the brainchild of Amrit Singh, executive editor of Stereogum.com. Prompted by a Soho-made "fusion" dosa with cheese in it (gasp!), Singh assembles a who's-who of New York's brown musical cognoscenti to set things straight: Indian Americans from all regions and musical genres like Iyer, Das Racist's Himanshu Suri and Ashok Kondabolu, and Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, as well as two honorary brown brothers, vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij (Persian) and Neon Indian's Alan Palomo (Mexican). Moving from Manhattan to that mecca of the South Asian Diaspora, Jackson Heights, Queens, the crew encounter dosa after dosa while eating, ranting and bantering. Equal parts culinary adventure, a portrait of the Indian American talent reshaping the musical landscape, and commentary on the cultural politics of brown, Dosa Hunt is an intimate insider's jaunt through South Asian Americana, New York-style.

Plot: As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. Hiding this decision from his girlfriend and family in Toronto is only the start of a series of compromises Amrit finds himself making as he deals with hospital politics and health care injustices. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.

Keywords: detroit-michigan, emergency-room, father-son-relationship, independent-film, indian, medical, michigan, photography, sikh, sikhismGenres: Drama,
Taglines: It is in the collision between the old ways and the new that we find out who we are.

Amrit Singh

Amrit Singh (born 1969) is a human rights lawyer for the National Security and Counterterrorism program at the Open Society Justice Initiative. She was formerly a staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.

As Senior Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, since 2009, Ms. Singh directs a program that conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on national security-related human rights abuses across the globe. She is Counsel, among other cases, in al Nashiri v. Poland and al Nashiri v. Romania, lawsuits brought on behalf of Guantanamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri before the European Court of Human Rights that challenge the role of Poland and Romania in the CIA’s secret detention program.

Singh is the author of Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition. The 216-page report, released by OSJI in February 2013, is the most comprehensive account to date of the human rights abuses associated with the CIA’s post 9/11 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations as well as of the large number of foreign governments implicated in these operations. The report received global media attention and was the subject of editorials in leading newspapers.

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Simmba (NR) This Indian crime thriller scores some comic points off the country’s corruption in telling the story of a swaggering cop (Ranveer Singh) who goes into policing expressly so he can shake down all the bad guys and make money ... Also with Ajay Devgn, SaraAli Khan, Abdul Quadir Amin, Sonu Sood, and Amrit Pal Singh....

The city is all geared up to celebrate the year’s first kite festival on Makar Sankranti tomorrow and the city markets are flooded with a range of fancy kites ... “I am buying for my son Vikky and myself, we fly kites from our roof every year to mark Sankranti,” says Doonite Amrit Pal Singh ... -Kushagra.Dixit@timesgroup.com. ....

Trilok Singh, father of the baby, said, "I had taken my wife to the community health centre in Ramgarh on January 6 for delivery ... "A case was registered late Tuesday night under Sections 304A and 336 of the IPC against two men - Jujhar Singh and Amrit Lal - who work at the CHC....

The incident took place on January 6 ...Following the incident, two male nurses-- Amrit Lal and Junjhar Singh-- were suspended and Nikhil Sharma, in-charge, Ramgarh community healthcare centre, was put on awaited posting order ... Doctors at Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur operated upon the woman and found the head of the foetus inside the womb ... Rajasthan. ....

Shahjahanpur ... Shahjahanpur's District magistrate Amrit Tripathi has asked SDM Powayan Satyapriya Singh to probe the matter ... He was probably intoxicated ... SDM Satyapriya Singh told TOI, "The deceased was the resident of a local village and died because of his own negligence ... ....

According to Shamli SP Ajay Pratap Singh, the NIA team, which arrived from Lucknow, brought four accused arrested in the arms looting case in October ... On October 15, the Shamli police arrested KaramSingh, Gurjant alias Zinta and Amrit, involved in the looting of arms after a brief encounter....

Ulhasnagar's Amritvela trust initiated silent morning kirtans using bluetooth headphones led by the guru and kirtankaar (preacher) Gurpreet SinghRinku... "We have been organizing AmritVela prayers for six to seven years," says GurmukhSingh, spokesperson of the trust ... No microphone is used and Amrit Vela proceeds unhindered....

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) — San Jose police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who ran over two elderly women Wednesday who were walking to work ... “People go here 50 to 60 sometimes, in the night time, in the morning and in the afternoon,” said cab driver AmritSingh, who lives in the neighborhood ... Comments ....

Gurmeet, assisted by his co-navigator Gurpratap Sandhu, and Kabir by YuvrajSinghTiwana took a climb up a steep hill and a virtual free fall which was breathtaking ... The Gerrari Off-Roaders' second team Gurinder Singh (Amrit Pal Singh) and Sushant Saini (Deepak Bagga) were also in the hunt, after clinching the maximum 100 points on Saturday....

The team did not enjoy the kind of start that it badly wanted on the opening night stage (Showman) the other day but was quite thrilled as it was again its second team, consisting of Gurinder Singh / Amrit Pal Singh and Sushant Saini / Deepak Bagga, that bagged 100 points and the top spot....